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Linux Gaming: Native vs. Wine vs. Windows 7 Performance

12-20-2010, 12:00 PM

Phoronix: Linux Gaming: Native vs. Wine vs. Windows 7 Performance

Linux gaming has a bright future ahead with the forthcoming Unigine games, successful indie campaigns, and many other Linux-native game titles being just out on the horizon. Right now though if you are a dedicated PC gamer looking to satisfy your entertainment appetite under Linux, more than likely you find yourself using the Wine program so that you can run many Windows programs under Linux. What is the performance impact though of using this method? In this article, we have a couple benchmarks comparing the performance of Wine, native Linux game binaries, and the native Microsoft Windows 7 Professional performance.

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Testing games that are natively available for Linux does not make much sense in my opinion, as nobody is interested in running them with Wine. What about comparing games from the Wine Platinum and Gold top lists? http://appdb.winehq.org/

Comment

Testing games that are natively available for Linux does not make much sense in my opinion, as nobody is interested in running them with Wine. What about comparing games from the Wine Platinum and Gold top lists? http://appdb.winehq.org/